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30-year-old Jenny Rutter (née Powell) was born and still lives in Cheltenham. Following two very successful years with a string of good results first for EliteVelo-Kalas in 2016 and then with Nikki Juniper in 2017, Jenny is moving to Nikki’s new team NJC-Biemme-Echelon. In addition to scoring numerous wins for herself, she’s known to be…

23-year-old Hannah Larbalestier has been cycling for most of her life, having started when she was just three years old. Nine years ago she started riding a road bike. Hannah says she started racing seriously last year, but she’s been picking up decent results since her days with High Wycombe CC in 2014, getting her…

16-year-old Felicity Gledhill has been riding for eight years and winning races since 2010 – she’d already clocked up more than a hundred wins by the time she turned 16 and moved into the Category A classification in 2016, then added ten more that year. Born in Leeds and based in Shepley, Felicity joined Sunsport Velo team…

33-year old Liz Burrows came to cycling late and has been riding for just three years – but, with a number of very impressive results including podium finishes, she was snapped up by the Jadan-Weldtite team last year and then moved on to Sunsport Velo for 2017. Born, bred and still living in Pontefract, Liz…

32-year-old Seonaid Thompson is from Macclesfield but now lives in Leeds and rides for the Sunsport Velo team. Her first victory came as a 4th Cat. in July 2013 when she rode for Albarosa CC at the York Sport Crits #4, beating 1st Cat. Iona Sewell, and she squeezed in five more podum finishes before the…

Norfolk-based track and road rider Sophie Holmes may only be 16, but having been racing since 2011 she has more experience than many older riders – and her career got off to a promising start when she won her first big race, the U12s at the Ixworth Crits back in 2011. The following year she…

Velo Club Londres’ Emma Jane Hornsby is a regular sight at road, track and cyclocross events around London, and the South, South-East and Eastern regions. She’s been picking up decent results since 2014 and last season managed eight podium finishes including a victory. Now aged 29, South London-based Emma Jane is originally from Henley-on-Thames…

If there’s one rider racing in the UK today who really doesn’t need an intoduction, it’s Nikki Juniper. She’s won the National Women’s Road Series three times in a row, been National Circuit Race Champion and National Masters Champion for her age group and has won most of the biggest races in the country including…

Rebecca Johnson joined the Fast Test Racing Team soon after graduating in veterinary science from Edinburgh University and started clocking up good results immediately, including three podium finishes in 2014, then five – including two wins – in 2015. Last year brought eight podiums and four wins, andshe also proved her ability to hold her own…

27-year-old Alice Staniford – known as @Tiny_Pigeon to her 3000 followers on Twitter, where she’s been a vocal advocate for all forms of cycling for some time – spent the last two years with EliteVelo-Kalas, for whom she took a number of podium finishes. She was born in Northamptonshire, but is now based in Exeter with…